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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Summary using awk Post 302387031 by ahmad.diab on Thursday 14th of January 2010 10:02:16 AM

01-14-2010

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strange it work with me.
try below

Code:

while true
do
echo -n "Title = "
read Title
echo -n "Author = "
read Author
if grep $Title database.txt | grep $Author  &>/dev/null
then
echo $Author
else
echo "Book Does not exist"
fi
done

---------- Post updated at 17:02 ---------- Previous update was at 16:56 ----------

or try this :-

Code:

while true
do
echo -n "Title = "
read Title
echo -n "Author = "
read Author
nawk -F: '/'$Title'/ &&/'$Author'/' infile.txt &>/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo $Author
else
echo "Book Does not exist"
fi
done

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